Sunil John: Surveying Arab Youth

CSIS Babel

Podcast Episode by Jon B. Alterman and Natasha Hall

Published December 1, 2020

This week on Babel, Jon is joined by Sunil John, founder of Asda’a BCW and president for the Middle East and North Africa for BCW, where he runs the annual Arab Youth Survey. Sunil and John talk about the results of this year's survey. They also talk about how his team develops the survey and how it has changed over the last decade. Then, Natasha, McKinley Knoop, and Jon discuss their own experiences developing trust in research.

Asda'a BCW, "Top 10 Findings of the Arab Youth Survey," Arab Youth Survey, 2020.
Jon Alterman, "Designating the Houthis as Terrorists Would be a Mistake," DefenseOne, November 25, 2020.
Jumana Khamis, "Survey sheds lights on hopes, expectations of Arab region's college students," Arab News, November 24, 2020.
Jon Alterman, "Pivoting to Asia Doesn't Get You Out of the Middle East," CSIS, October 19, 2020.
Transcript, "Surveying Arab Youth," CSIS, December 1, 2020.

Jon Alterman

Jon B. Alterman

Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy

Natasha Hall

Natasha Hall

Former Senior Associate (Non-resident), Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department